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| The Lion and his Lady by Lialathuveril | 76 Review(s) |
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| Cuthalion | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 11/1/2007 |
| “The others also gave me money,” Lothíriel went on, blissfully unaware of the undercurrent of menace between the two men. Her brother’s eyes popped. “The others!” Oh.My.God. *collapses* Absolutely perfect. And that you use one of my favorite fairy tales ever certainly adds to the beauty of this lovely tale. Wonderfully done. Cúthalion Author Reply: Well, Lothiriel might not be quite as worldly wise as she likes to think. And funny enough Kalif Storch is also one of my favourite fairy tales. Reading it to my children not long ago gave me the idea for this. Lia | |
| galimeril | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 11/1/2007 |
| That was so sweet! I like this one much better than the previous chapter. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy. When I started laughing at Lotheriel's innocent comments on a room for the night, all the people in the library stared at me like I was crazy. Great story. I think you ought to continue this one! It really is a great opener. Can't wait for more! Author Reply: LOL at being stared at in the library! The stories in this series are all different, so might like some and not like others. As for continuing this, I don't really have any plans to do so. I think I'll just have to leave it up to your imagination. To stay with the fairy tale theme: they lived happily ever after ;-) Lia | |
| Elflingimp | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 10/30/2007 |
| Just wanted you to know I love your stories!!!!! Author Reply: Thank you! I have a lot of fun writing them, so that probably comes through. Lia | |
| websterans | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 10/30/2007 |
| Brilliant! Author Reply: Thank you! | |
| Alquawende | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 10/29/2007 |
| Lia, I forgot but should you capitalize the 'k' in king Casim? Author Reply: Yes I should. Thanks for pointing that out! | |
| Alquawende | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 10/29/2007 |
| Lia, this is definitely a completely different scenario that I never would imagine for Eomer and Lothiriel. The story was quite enjoyable. I almost felt like one of the children there. When you described Lothiriel's clothing I immediately thought of Arabian Nights and am wondering if that culture was where you recieved the garmant ideas? I think it's quite nice to imagine the people of Harad being like the Arabians and the Middle-Eastern culture in history. I loved the bet idea! Amrothos losing was quite fun to see and how he was such a poor sport and tried to hide it by saying that their father would be worried. It's always nice to see a woman destroy a man's ego... Ahh... This is a very original scenario that will standout from all the other European type ones that everyone else writes about. Thanks for writing! Author Reply: Yes, I did imagine the Haradrim as being a bit like Middle-Eastern people and for this one I thought that the Gondorians in the South might be influenced by them. The garment I had in mind is a 'salwar kameez', a traditional and very elegant dress of Muslim women in India and Pakistan. And the fairy tale is very well known amongst German speaker and takes place in Baghdad, probably influenced by 1001 Nights. I read it to my children not long ago and that's where I got the idea from. And LOL on Lothiriel destroying her brother's ego. And he can't even get even by pillaging the countryside ;-) Lia | |
| mistry89 | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/28/2007 |
| I'm so glad to see more of these two from you! This Lothiriel comes across as unaffected and great fun, which seems to be more than acceptable to Eomer :) I liked the way the letters got progressively more "chatty" and then intimate. Thank you! Author Reply: Hello Mistry, nice to see you around here as well. I thought Eomer would probably appreciate a little bit of 'frivolity' after all the hardship he's been through and he seems to realize how lucky he is. Somehow I seem to be stuck with these two, so there will be more coming up! Lia | |
| Cuthalion | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/27/2007 |
| Goodness gracious, I had nearly missed this! How delightful - and when I actually discovered Belecthor, I giggled madly. Can't wait to see more! Cúthalion Author Reply: For some reason Belecthor seems to creep into a lot of my stories. There's another one coming up with more quotes ;-) Lia | |
| Celeste | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/25/2007 |
| This is so lovely! I like the idea of the letters very much... I'm very intrigued by now, and it's seams an eternity since I leave a review to you... Looking foward to more... Bye! Author Reply: Hola Celeste, how nice to hear from you again and to see you haven't given up reading fan fiction! I had a bit of a break over the summer, but then these came along and insisted on being written. More next week! Saludos Lia | |
| Edlyn | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/24/2007 |
| This was such an absolutely charming series of letters! I'm smiling so much my face actually hurts. I look forward to reading the rest of this little series. I think my favorite bits were the postscripts. Though the most fun is trying to figure out Eomer's side of the correspondence from Lothiriel's replies. Absolutely lovely work. Edlyn Author Reply: Thank you! It was also fun thinking of Eomer's replies and then trying to have Lothiriel allude to them in her letters. And I tend to put a lot of postscripts in my own emails, so that's probably how they crept in! | |